Items with tag “texting”

January 19, 2012, 3:04PM

CITIZEN PATRIOT • SARA WINKLER Junior students dressed as crash-test dummies Kyle Vicklund, front, and Shai Osborn relax in the classroom before heading to the gymnasium to begin their awareness assembly in front of their peers Friday afternoon at Vandercook Lake High School. The group of students, who volunteer in the high school's 'Most Teens Don't' club, work to spread...

May 02, 2010, 11:17AM

Michigan will become the 24th state to ban texting while driving when a new law takes effect July 1. But laws is laws. Will people really stop this incredibly dangerous practice when the threat of being caught are so low? Full story »

September 27, 2009, 4:19AM

Online voting appears the preferred method for the ArtPrize competition. But so far, Web, texting and mobile users have combined for 60,000 up votes, producing a top 25 list. Artists are conducting get-out-the-vote campaigns, but some people are unhappy with the all-electronic process. Full story »

May 10, 2009, 6:01AM

BYRON TOWNSHIP -- When Byron Center High School junior Ally Steffes sees teenagers chatting and texting on cell phones while driving, she wonders if they know the risk. She is helping make her point with a billboard put up near U.S. 131 and 44th Street SW in Wyoming. The advertisement displays her at the wheel with a phone at... Full story »

February 07, 2008, 1:33AM

Surely enough has been discussed, hashed over and surmised about Detroit's Mayor and his penchant for a) embarrassing social habits, b) his perpetual lack of an ethical compass and his c) texting. But what should Kwame Kilpatrick have done in the wake of his scandal du jour, this time with the revelations through text messages of an affair six years... Full story »